Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has released findings from a nationwide study of 2,000 UK employees that analysed their thoughts on the country’s cyber resilience and their own attitudes to security. The results demonstrate the lack of awareness towards cybersecurity in the UK. Despite 60% admitting to having been impacted by a cyber-attack, the study found a general lack of awareness towards cybersecurity, revealing that only 27% are aware of the associated risks, while 1 in 10 (11%) admitted to not worrying about them at all and the same amount confessing that cybersecurity is someone else’s problem.
Unfortunately, the public’s confidence in the government to prevent large-scale cyber-attacks appears to be divided as well. In fact, just over half are confident, whilst the remaining 45% are either not confident at all or are unsure, while 30% confessed to thinking the UK is more equipped to deal with another pandemic over a cyber–attack.
Other key findings include:
The top three worries for the UK’s future were:
Economic recession (54%)
Another pandemic (50%)
Climate change (48%)
A large-scale cyber-attack on the UK’s critical infrastructure came in fourth at 21%
21% of the UK workforce thinks Britain going to war is as much of a worry as the country facing a large-scale cyberattack on its critical infrastructure
46% said the UK is more capable to deal with a cyberattack since leaving the EU, 34% said less capable, and 1 in 5 didn’t know
1 in 5 (20%) think Russian-backed cybercriminals are the biggest threat to the UK’s cybersecurity, followed by financially motivated cybercriminals (17%) and Chinese-backed cybercriminals (16%)
The study also found that1 in 5 (20%) people will pay for online security (AV/password manager etc) while 1 in 3 (33%) pay for home security, 1 in 4 (25%) for car security and 1 in 4 (25%) for phone ..
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